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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Announcing K9 Ventures, L.P. – a seed stage fund

K9 Ventures

The fund focuses on investing in companies that meet the following necessary but not sufficient criteria: Technical Founders : The founding team needs to be capable of building its own product and have the technical chops to make it happen. Technical Product : The product must have some technical depth.

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Lessons Learned: CPI > CPC

Startup Lessons Learned

Other than that, you know their IP address, maybe their browser version or what country they are in. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. When someone clicks on one of your traditional CPC or CPM ads, what do you know about them? You know the content of the ad, so you know a little bit about what theyre interested in.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, users asked that IMVU make a determination as to who was deliberately passing Unfit for IMVU products into the catalog and stop them from performing peer review on either their main accounts or their alts. Users also asked that IMVU identify and aggressively act to eliminate the source of such products up to and including IP bans.

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